Washington Post reporter Darran Simon found dead in his apartment

[Judi Lynn]

By MURI ASSUNÇÃO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 10, 2020 | 4:08 PM

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon was found dead in his apartment Thursday, according to a memo sent by one the newspaper’s top editors.

No cause of death has been announced.

Simon, who covered D.C. government and politics, had recently joined the newspaper, after working as a senior news writer for CNN.

“He made an immediate impact on his arrival,” wrote Tracy Grant, the newspaper’s managing editor for staff development and standards. “He proved himself to be dogged, as when asking Mayor Bowser questions at her daily press briefings, and deeply humane, as when he told the story of a former ‘Jeopardy’ contestant who died of COVID-19.”

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[hlthe2b]

1. very sad...

He surely had a kind face.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R

Wondering what the circumstances were? Covid? Epsteined? Too close to the stairs, perhaps?

[elleng]

3. 'Darran Simon, a journalist who developed an expertise reporting on trauma

during a wide-ranging career that had recently brought him to The Washington Post, where he covered District politics and government, was found dead April 9 at his home in Washington. He was 43.

A spokeswoman for the D.C. medical examiner’s office said a determination of the cause of death is pending further tests.

Mr. Simon was born in England and spent his childhood in the South American nation of Guyana and in New Jersey. In his professional life, he displayed restless curiosity as well as deep compassion for people who had endured natural catastrophe and man-made violence.

“I am drawn to writing about suffering and trauma,” he once noted, “because I am in awe of the human spirit’s ability to persevere.”

After two years as the Miami Herald’s minority affairs reporter, he moved to New Orleans in 2007 as an education reporter for the Times-Picayune, compelled to document the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “Down the road, 35 years from now, when memories are all I have,” he told the University of Rhode Island alumni magazine, “I’ll be able to look back at this time and remember this experience.” . .

Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro called him a “quiet, curious and very deeply engaged journalist” who had spent years writing about survivors of violence in some of the toughest cities in the United States, from New Orleans to Camden, N.J., and how they cope with those experiences.

For all his drive to make loss more intimate, or perhaps because of it, Mr. Simon was also known as a roving epicure with a sharp understated cool to his wardrobe and an ear for sumptuous music. On his website, Mr. Simon described himself as a “a foodie and a jazz lover who will travel anywhere for a good meal and a horn section.”'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/darran-simon-washington-post-journalist-dies-at-43/2020/04/10/ead961f8-7b3d-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html

[Judi Lynn]

4. Thanks for this Post article. May he rest in peace.

[appalachiablue]

5. What a shame, so young; thanks for the post.

[2naSalit]

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